Purisima, Roxas show up at Senate probe on Mamasapano incident

Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and resigned PNP Director General Alan Purisima. INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS

MANILA, Philippines — Controversial resigned Philippine National Police Chief Director General Alan Purisima and other key military and police officials returned to the Senate on Tuesday as it resumed its investigation into the Mamasapano incident.

Aside from Purisima, the other officials who are present at the resumption of the hearing of the Senate committee on public order, joint with committees on peace, unification and reconciliation, and finance were relieved PNP-Special Action Force (SAF) Director Getulio Napeñas, PNP officer in charge Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina, and military officials led by Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, and Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Gregorio Pio Catapang.

Also present were Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, Commission on Human Rights chair Loretta Ann Rosales, and Professor Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, government peace panel chair, among others .

All the officials mentioned, except for Rosales , were present in Monday’s first hearing of the Senate on the botched Mamasapano operation where 44 SAF members were killed while conducting a manhunt operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last January 25.

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